Gottingae (Göttingen), typis et impensis Jo. Christ. Dieterich, 1784, in-8°, XX + 986 p. + 17 p. (Index generum), rousseurs, papier bruni, avec signet, ex libris ms. ancien ‘de Miremont’, doublures et gardes en beau papier marbré caillouté veiné azur, solide et élégante reliure en veau moucheté, dos à nerfs richement doré aux petits fers, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, filet doré sur les coupes, coins très légèrement émoussés, tranches rouges, bel exemplaire.
Linnaeus established new systems for the three kingdoms of nature: animals, plants and minerals in his «Species naturae». ‘One of the Greatest Classics in Natural History’. Revised edition by Johann Andreas Murray (†1820), professor of chemistry, pharmacology and materia medica at the university of Edinburgh. Hirsch III/796-797; Dictionary of Scientific Biography VIII/374-381. Image disp.
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Viennae (Wien), Typis Joan. Thomae nob. de Trattern, 1767. [iv], xix, [xx], 580, [44] pp. Small 8vo (12,8 x 20,2 cm.). Comtemporary full marbled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, in compartments richly gilt tooled with floral motives; gilt lettered on a brown morocco label; red washed edges.
Soulsby , 315; Hulth, 25; Stafleu/Cowan, 3844. A straightforward reprint of the "Genera plantarum editio VI". Page 576 misnumbered 566.-- (Apart from some trifling imperfections, a very attractive copy from library of Monsieur Le Marquis de VICHY).
Lugduni, Bernuset, Delamolliire, Falque et Soc., 1796. [ii],xl, 841; [ii], 885-2661, [i, blank] pp. 8vo (13 x 20,45 cm.). Uniformly bound in contempirary full marbled calf, in compartment richly gilt tooled, gilt lettered and numbered on red & brown morocco labels, gilt fillet on the outer edges of sides (top of very slightly worn).
Soulsby 601. A reprint of the 1791 edition, and a [pirated] reissue of Tom.2 of the Lyons edition 1789-1796 of J.F, Gmelin's Systema Naturae. It was published without portrait and without a title for volume one, just a half-title. --(First and last quire of volume 2 with scattered light dampstain, but a very good copy).